LilyPond.app has been my work, but I don't mind if someone else
steps to continue improveming and developing it. However, I do
oppose to Objective-C as development language. We already have too
many languages (C++, Python, Scheme and bits of C)- and I see a
maintenance problem with adding another one. The wrapper for
LilyPond.app has been written in Python, which is fortunately
pretty simple to learn and use.
That's certainly an understandable position. I don't know Python, but
I have been meaning to learn. From an initial glance through the
PyObjC documentation, I think it would probably be possible to re-
implement LilyPad in Python, but it would take a fair amount of work,
and would require writing Python wrappers for a couple of frameworks
in addition to writing the application code itself.
Therefore, I think my approach will be this: for the immediate
future, I'll maintain and improve LilyPad in Objective-C as a
separate project. Over time, I may learn Python and see what features
can be added to LilyPond.app.
The easiest would be to check out the installers/macos/ module from
savannah CVS. In the LilyPad subdirectory, you'll find a pyobjc
application, which you can build with
python setup py2app.py
set LILYPOND_DEBUG_APPDIR=/Applications/LilyPond.app/ , and you
will be able to run dist/LilyPond.app
Great, I'll check this out.
--Ed
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